alanschu

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Few things are sadder and depressing than the Counterstrike community!

Well, cirumstances of this game has lead me almost straight north. I'm not at war with Germania (nor do I intend to be at the moment), but I suspect they won't like me along their borders. The northern approach has allowed me to get access to the Gauls from the North and the South. I actually haven't even touched Sicily or Africa yet either. I'm hoping to keep the fronts limited for now. But I have won some key battles against the Gauls, using my diciplined Legionnaires to take advantage of the inferior troops of the Gauls. Two battles have seen me get a net gain of over 1000 troops, and their military potency has dropped off significantly as a result. However, Macedonia has just crushed the Greek States (along with the Ptolemic Empire), and they declared war on my by sieging a city in the Veneto region. This forced a mass militarization of Latin Rome, and I have ferried troops across the Ionian/Adriatic Sea region into Albany to take the fight to the Macedonians. I hope to cut off Greece and capture the statue of Zeus! If I'm lucky, the Carthaginians won't be too aggressive as long as I stay out of Sicily, and hopefully I can sweep around to capture the Iberians, and then get Carthage from both sides. I'll also likely take Britannia Superior when I'm in the Gaulish region, as there's no sense keeping those unoccupied. Plus they have ports which means $$$$$. I suspect a war declaration from the Germanians soon, as I have likely encroached on lands they would like to conquer. I think I expanded up north fast enough though that I have cut off a lot of their potential expansion. Many of the regions around them are still under independent control, so they won't be benefiting too much. They do seem to have lots of money however. I am slowly reinforcing the region with some garrisons, as well as the odd governor. Though the governor is more there to recruit mercenaries as necessary, as the RTR mod makes it more difficult to start recruiting armies with new cities. Have to build up the Auxillaries first.

I prefer something a bit more action oriented. Typically a First Person Shooter. More instant gratification. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I prefer Resident Evil Shotgun Decaps ftw! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> To each his or her own. There's something really satisfying about listening to someone accuse me of cheating in Counterstrike. And then telling me that he can tell from my Steam account ID that my account had been banned once before. It's the bestest compliment I can get in that game As for my BG and BG2 experiences, I can't really remember any bugs outside of Jaheira's romance looping. I played the games patched. It's been a long time though so I may have just forgotten. But if that's the case my experience with the bugs couldn't have been that big of a deal.

I wouldn't recommend seeing it alone. I just saw it with my roommate. But we knew full well what we were getting into and it was good fun

Yeah. It was pretty barren in our theatre as well. Which is good, because it allows for comfortable discourse about the movie while it happens, without annoying anyone

I prefer something a bit more action oriented. Typically a First Person Shooter. More instant gratification.

Sure does suck to be these guys.

Penn (from Penn and Teller naturally) has stated on his show many times that he is biased. He's just doesn't try to hide it. From watching the show it seems he really hates it when civil liberties are infringed upon.

Sounds like you play Baldur's Gate and Fallout.

Uh.. Yes, yes and yes. Just sign it up under Vologic, I'm not going to defend my absolutely idiotic statement. I just felt it belonged in here together with Volourn's usual idiocy. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Then I'd say that's as foolish as openly playing a game that you don't like 3 complete times. Are people just gluttons for punishment that they actively participate in activities that they don't like doing? I had no idea masochism was so popular.

It turns out that the "problem" was because in older versions of RTR, the Imperial Palace could not be in Rome (I believe this is because the SPQR would trigger it significantly earlier in the game). With the new version I have, it got trigger the second the palace was built.

Do you proactively choose to install and use Windows ME, when other OSes are readily available and there is nothing specific to ME that is particularly desired? Moreover, do you actively choose to spend a large amount of time investment using it, despite the availability of other OSes?

Oh, come off it, Judge Hades. You're just looking for reasons to bash the module so you can stick to your guns about anything NWN related. I'm with GOA. You'll flip-flop on this issue. Perhaps someone will conveniently download and install NWN on your computer again, as luck seems to have played a role in your hardline stances against games such as KOTOR 2 and Star Wars: Galaxies.

I love Penn & Teller's Bull****.

For those interested, it seems as though the Total Realism mod is still being updated. Check it out here. I think I'm going to finally backup the original game. I have reinstalled it about 4 times now

Do I have to wait for 106 BC for the Marius Reforms to kick in (which is historical)? In vanilla, I'm pretty sure you just need the Imperial Palace. Is there a small wait or something? I hope I don't need to wait for 106 BC because I'm still at 210 BC

Go into Snakes on a Plane expecting goofy, silly fun, and you shouldn't be disappointed. It's not Oscar material, but my roommate and I enjoyed it.

Snakes on a Plane!!!11!1!!1 A rather gory movie!

What? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I think he was indicating his (their) subscription to the school of Realism. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to register on their radar that there are other, equally valid, philosophical hypotheses. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Which is a bit of a fault with Philosophy IMO. I'm all for introspection, and think it can be a good thing at one point. But it seems as long as you state your assumptions, and base it in your logic, you can pretty much say anything. I think we're in a petri-dish, being experimented on by some other, outer universe race. The big bang was essentially the drop placed into the petri dish. As the "drop" expands, our universe expands. Somewhere high, high above, an intelligent life form is noticing some interesting activity in one part, which is naturally the Milky Way Galaxy. Cosmology is fun!

I'm curious why you are blasting something that is free, especially when it seems to fit into your archetype fof RPG games. Simply because you were let down when NWN was released so many years ago?

Meh, I have never been a fan of philosophy. Empiricism for the win.

Were you not one of the people getting anxious because of how long the game had been in development?

To be fair, the "if a tree falls down and no one's around, does it make a sound" is pretty weak from a philosophical perspective. Why wouldn't it make a sound?

It is a ton of fun to play. Something about creating a blitzkreig of tanks to go whoop-ass!!